Apparatus for playing croquet



N 1933- J. E. ZIEBARTH APPARATUS FOR PLAYING CROQUET Filed Sept. 12. 1931 INVENTOR' A TTORNE K5.

Patented Nov. 21, 1933 v r I UNETE STATES" PATENT OFFICE. I

. 1,936,220 APPARATUS FOR PLAYING CROQUET John E. Ziebarth, St. Marys, Ohio Application September 12, 1931 Serial No. 562,515

3 Claims. (01. 273-56) This invention relates to apparatus for playing the stake 21, this being shown in Fig. 5, where croquet, more particularly where the game is to be the dotted circle, representing the ball, can strike played indoors, for example, on acarpeted floor. the stake without touching the base 20. In Fig. 6

- The particular improvement resides in the form the base is seen to have an angularity correspondand construction of base blocks for holding the ing to that of the base 10. The stake 21 is pro- 60 wickets and stakesin an upright position and vided with a tenon 22 to fit in the socket 23 in affording the wickets and stakes the needed stathe base 20. When the stake is to be set up outbility, without impeding the balls as they pass doors, the spud 25 shown in Fig. '7 may be used through the wickets or are driven to the stakes. instead of the base 20. The spud is driven into I shall describe my invention with the assistthe ground, and is provided with a socket 26 to 65 ance of the accompanying drawing, in which receive the tenon 22. If desired the spud may be Fig. 1 is an elevational View of a wicket supleft in ,the ground. For outside playing the bases ported by base blocks of my improved form; 10 may be removed from the wickets and the Fig. 2 is a plan View of a wicket supported by wickets pressed into the ground.

my improved base blocks; In Fig. 4 I show a modified form of base. This 70 Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the wicket as it base is in fact simply one-fourth of a disc, and is I would appear to an observer standing in a posiprovided with a hole 2'1 to receive the leg of a tion obliquely removed from the wicket, instead wicket. oi squarely in front or" the wicket as the observer Having shown and described what at the time is supposed to be in viewing the wicket shown in I regard as the preferred embodiment of my in- Fig. l; vention, I make the following claims:

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a modified form of base 1. A croquet wicket provided with a base for block; each leg adapted to stand on a bare or carpeted Fig. 5 is an elevational view of a' stake supfloor, said base having a spread sufficiently large ported by one of my improved base blocks, the toafford the necessary stability to the wicket, '80 observer standing at one side of the stake; said spread being so disposed that a croquet ball Fig. 6 is a plan view of the base block of the having a diameter appropriate to the distance stake. Save that the hole is larger in this block it between the legs of the wicket passingthrough is the same as the blocks seen in Fig. 2; and the wicket in any direction may touch a leg of Y 39 Fig. 7 illustrates a spud which may be driven in the wicket, but will not touch the base. '85 the ground and used instead of the base block to 2. A base block for a croquet wicket, adapted to supp t that stake w the m i played utstand on a bare or carpeted floor, and having a doors. hole to receive a leg of the wicket, said block be- Y improved ba b ock is V-shttpein form ving of suchshape and the hole so placed that a and has a ho e bo d n w p of the croquet ball havinga' diameter appropriate to the a pt d to serve as a socket for the l 11 f a distance between the legs of the wicket passing wicket12- A i pl in y vseen by f rence to Fi through the wicket in any. direction will not 2, the portion of the block corresponding to the t h the block, p of the V, indicated all is broad enough to 3. A V-shape base block for a croquet wicket 40 give the Wicket the r q stiibility-v Referadapted to stand on a bare or carpeted floor, and ring to Fig. 1, it will be seen that the dotted circle, having hole adapted to serve as a socket for represen in a r q h touches h wi one leg of a wicket, said hole being near enough but not the base. T means that hall P n to the apex of the V to insure a ball of a given q b through the Wicket and j ea i g One diameter clearing the apex as it passes squarely 45 l o th wi wi not h i p 'by the ba through the wicket while just clearing the leg 10. In F 2 th d t d p al lines i di at thereof, the included angle of the v being such the maximum bl quity atw th h a pas that said ball will clear the sides, of the block through the wicket. It Will be observed that the in passing through the wicket at, the maximum sides of the base are parallel to these lines. Then possible obliquity, 59 referring to Fig. 3, where the observer views the ball along a line parallel to the dotted lines in Fig. 2, it is seen that in passing through the wicket at the greatest possible obliquity the ball clears the sides of the base by a safe margin. 55 The same i ea is carried out in the base 20 for 1 JOHN E. ZIEBARTH. 

